The golden toad of Monteverde, Costa Rica, was among the first casualties of amphibian declines.

* Our Lady of the Angels Day ( Costa Rica )

*** Mother's Day ( Antwerp and Costa Rica )

Other International General Service Offices ( Australia, Costa Rica, Russia, etc.

( Costa Rica )

According to the SEC, Aon ’ s subsidiaries made improper payments of over $ 3. 6 million to government officials and third party facilitators in Costa Rica, Egypt, Vietnam, Indonesia, the United Arab Emirates, Myanmar and Bangladesh, between 1983 and 2007, in order to obtain and retain insurance contracts.

Abacá ( ; from Spanish " abacá " for Musa textilis ), Musa textilis, is a species of banana native to the Philippines, grown as a commercial crop in the Philippines, Ecuador, and Costa Rica.

Abaca fiber drying in abaca farm, Costa Rica

Today, abaca is produced commercially in only three countries: Philippines, Ecuador, and Costa Rica.

Yields are highest in Costa Rica, but the industry is new and planted acreage limited.

In Costa Rica, more modern harvest and drying techniques are being developed to accommodate the very high yields obtained there.

ARIN formerly covered Argentina, Aruba, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Dutch West Indies, Ecuador, El Salvador, Falkland Islands ( UK ), French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, and Venezuela until LACNIC was formed.

In general Spanish, they are known as cortaplumas ( penknife, when it comes to folding blades ); in Spain, Mexico, and Costa Rica, they are colloquially known as cutters ; and in Uruguay the segmented fixed-blade knives are known as " trinchetas ".

Costa Rica ( Roman Catholic ), Denmark ( Evangelical Lutheran ), El Salvador ( Roman Catholic ), England ( Anglican ), Finland ( Evangelical Lutheran & Orthodox ), Georgia ( Georgian Orthodox ), Greece ( Greek Orthodox ), Iceland ( Evangelical Lutheran ), Liechtenstein ( Roman Catholic ), Malta ( Roman Catholic ), Monaco ( Roman Catholic ), and Vatican City ( Roman Catholic ).

The Cayman Rise extends from southeastern Cuba along the northern margin of the Cayman Trough toward Costa Rica and resulted from Paleocene to Eocene island arc formation with associated volcanism along an extinct subduction zone.

Clipperton Island ( or ) is an uninhabited coral atoll in the eastern Pacific Ocean, southwest of Mexico and west of Costa Rica, at.

In 1988, five Mexican fishermen became lost at sea after a storm that occurred during their trip along the coast of Costa Rica.

Pre-Columbian Ceramics from Nicoya, Costa Rica

In Pre-Columbian times the Native Americans in what is now Costa Rica were part of a cultural complex known as the " Intermediate Area ," between the Mesoamerican and Andean cultural regions.

The colonial period began when Christopher Columbus reached the eastern coast of Costa Rica on his fourth voyage in 1502.

Numerous subsequent Spanish expeditions followed, eventually leading to the first Spanish colony, Villa Bruselas in Costa Rica in 1524.

During most of the colonial period, Costa Rica was the southernmost province of the Captaincy General of Guatemala, which was nominally part of the Viceroyalty of New Spain ( i. e., Mexico ), but which in practice operated as a largely autonomous entity within the Spanish Empire.

Costa Rica's distance from the capital in Guatemala, its legal prohibition under Spanish law to trade with its southern neighbors in Panama, then part of the Viceroyalty of New Granada ( i. e., Colombia ), and the lack of resources such as gold and silver, made Costa Rica into a poor, isolated, and sparsely inhabited region within the Spanish Empire.

Costa Rica was described as " the poorest and most miserable Spanish colony in all America " by a Spanish governor in 1719.

In 1997, Hoffman starred opposite John Travolta in the Costa Gavras film Mad City and gained his seventh Academy Award nomination for his performance in Wag The Dog, in a role that allowed Hoffman the chance to work with both Robert De Niro and Denis Leary.

Among the noted musical figures born in the state are Dorival Caymmi ; João Gilberto ; Gilberto Gil, the former ( 2003 – 2008 ) country's Minister of Culture ; Caetano Veloso and his sister Maria Bethânia ( Gil and Veloso being the founders of the Tropicália movement ( a native adaptation of the hippie movement ) of the late 1960s and early 1970s, which ultimate gained international recognition ); Gal Costa ; Luis Caldas ; Sara Jane ; Daniela Mercury ; Ivete Sangalo ; Carlinhos Brown and Margareth Menezes.

Once Figueres gained control, the legislation he passed regarding social reform for his Second Republic of Costa Rica was not that much different from Calderón's proposals.

Having gained 50 caps for Portugal, Costa represented the nation at one World Cup and one European Championship.

Alajuelense is a founder member and one of most successful teams of the Costa Rican football history, having won 27 times the Primera División title, being the only Costa Rican club with least one title gained in each decade.

Brujas is the newest team in Costa Rica, and has gained a lot of fans since their creation.

Parks gained recognition as an exceptional youth player, appearing in FIFA World Youth Championships U-17 in 1999 held in Nigeria and U-20 in 2001 held in Argentina, and leading Costa Rica during the 2001 U-20 tournament, with four goals.

Original artists on the World Beatnik Records label, Watusi has won many awards for Reggae and Worldbeat and have gained international airplay in 106 countries, performed from Hawaii to Jamaica, Costa Rica and Mexico, and earned the respect of the international reggae and worldbeat communities, fans and artists.

Montezuma is a town in Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica which began as a remote fishing village and has gained popularity since the 1980s among tourists on a budget.

Juan Santamaría, ( the only Costa Rican to have a national holiday declared in his honor ), gained his martyrdom, and Pancha Carrasco became Costa Rica's first woman soldier.

It is fairly common in the Dominican Republic and it has gained popularity in Panama, Colombia, Costa Rica and Puerto Rico.

Members of Parliament ( Sejm ) elected from Jelenia Gora-Legnica constituency in Polish parliamentary election, 2005 included: Ślusarczyk Piotr, LPR, Witek Elżbieta, PiS, Lipiński Adam, PiS, Zubowski Jan, PiS, Madziarczyk Tadeusz, PiS, Schetyna Grzegorz, PO, Sawicka Beata, PO, Cybulski Piotr, PO, Szmajdziński Jerzy, SLD, Litwin Czesław, Samoobrona RP, Costa Hubert, Samoobrona RP, and Zbrzyzny Ryszard, SLD.

Prior to his election, he had served as Costa Rica's ambassador to the United States and as the country's representative to both the United Nations and the Organization of American States ( 1949 – 1950 ).

In the 1948 election for Picado's successor as Costa Rica's President, Picado supported his predecessor, Rafael Angel Calderón Guardia, who hoped to win a second term.

Manuel Pinto da Costa ran as the MLSTP / PSD candidate in the 1996 Presidential election.

In the July 2001 Presidential election, Manuel Pinto da Costa again attempted to regain the presidency, but was soundly defeated by businessman Fradique de Menezes 55. 2 % to 40. 0 %.

In an election held on June 24, 1946, a proposal to form a sanitary district for areas of central Contra Costa County was approved.

Pinto da Costa did not contest the election and instead announced he would retire from politics.

The election was contested by four candidates ; incumbent President Miguel Trovoada, former President Manuel Pinto da Costa, Alda Bandeira, a former Foreign Minister, and former Prime Minister Carlos da Graça.

Manuel Pinto da Costa, President since independence in 1975, declared that he would not be contesting the election and that he would retire from politics.

In the Costa Rican general election, 2010, Laura Chinchilla, the previous Vice-President, and the PLN candidate won the election with an initial count of 47 %.

The allegedly subversive character of the Foro's activities, however, was revived during the 2010 Brazilian presidential election campaign, as the vice-presidential candidate in the José Serra ticket, Antônio Pedro de Siqueira Indio da Costa, denounced repeatedly the supposed connection, by way of the Foro, between the Brazilian Workers ' Party and the FARC.

James Manuel " Jim " Costa ( born April 13, 1952 ) is the U. S. Representative for, serving since his initial election in 2004.

" Ultimately, Costa won the election with 54 % of the vote to Ashburn's 46 %.

The Democrats won control of the House in that election, and Costa became chairman of the Natural Resources Committee's Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee.

Elections in Costa Rica gives information on elections and election results in Costa Rica.

Two days before the election, two of Soares Carneiro's leading supporters, Prime Minister Francisco Sá Carneiro ( no relation ) and Defence Minister Adelino Amaro da Costa died in an air accident while heading for a rally in Oporto.

His coalition, by now called ' New Movement ' ( Nuevo Movimiento ) backed UCR Eduardo Costa for Governor of Santa Cruz, who was defeated by Kirchner's candidate Daniel Peralta in 2007, although the different opposition parties within the Change to Grow coalition fell out over the placings on the regional list for national deputies in the election.

His first attempt at winning a mayoral election was in 2001, but he lost to majority candidates Carlos Sampaio and Antonio Costa.